Disclaimer: The BTVS characters are not mine.
Buffy...I thought for sure she would help and understand me. The two of us alone to fight against all the monsters. I thought she would get me. Sure I was scared and my watcher was dead. I hated going to her for help with Kakistos. It made me feel like maybe I shouldn't be a slayer, that I was a mistake and I now needed to go to the true slayer to save me. But then I remember...she died! Nobody could understand better. Sometimes the monsters were just to much for one person, one slayer. She would get what happened more then anyone.
It took two months with that monster chasing me to cross the country from Boston to California. I had nothing but the clothes on my back and my survival instincts. Growing up the way I did you learn how to survive. The best times were when I'd hitch a train. I could relax for a bit and I would think about how everything would be okay once I got to Sunnydale. I am a Slayer and I was CHOSEN...WE were CHOSEN. There was no longer one girl in all the world. For the first time there were two. We were special. I was so glad I didn't have to fight alone. Didn't have to carry this burden all by myself and I had great respect for Buffy who did carry the burden for years by herself. It couldn't have been easy but I was on my way to her and after we defeat Kakistos nothing could stand in our way. Sure I messed up, couldn't save my watcher but I was still a slayer. My ma wasn't right I am not nothing!
On the outside Sunnydale looks like any other small American town. However looks are deceiving. I could actually feel the evil the closer I got. When the bus finally pulled up to the stop there was a continuous buzz along the back of my neck. Like if there was a vampire nearby...just slightly different. It's around dinner time when I arrive so after freshening up in the bathroom I figured I'd stow my small duffel of stuff I collected on my journey at the bus stop and check out the town. Get a feel for what's going on and stake out the places I am likely to find Buffy. Maybe I could crash with her until all this stuff with Kakistos blows over. Probably best to stick together for now.
Wow, when I said Sunnydale was small I wasn't kidding. It should make it easier to find her. I looked up Summers in the phone book and found a listing for a J. Summers. I'm going to save that for a last resort. Hopefully I will run into her tonight at the ONE club they have in this place. So after stopping off to get a quick bite to eat (it being two days since I had anything) I hit the Bronze. It's been forever since I've just let loose and danced. Before Kakistos I would hit a club or a bar and just go all out. Dancing is like slaying I can escape into it and forget about everything else for a while. It's a release. They give me a peace I haven't experienced before.
As soon as I get in the club I could tell there was a vampire nearby. That buzz on the back of my neck just got stronger. After looking around I see my target and decide to bait him so I start dancing. I know he (as well as almost everyone else in here...they might not notice me when it counts but I never had any trouble attracting that kind of attention) is watching me. As I am dancing I feel another sort of buzz. This one is nicer...calming. It almost gives me a feeling of security. I look around and see a group of kids about my age, maybe a little older settling around a table. And that's when I know. The small blond in the middle has to be Buffy. Man talk about looks being deceiving. This small slip of a girl is all that protects the world from the monsters? And if the stories my watcher has told me are true she is one badass chick.
Shortly after the small group settles round a table with drinks the vamp approaches me. I almost forgot about him what with Buffy here and all. But this is what I am made for. So we dance. I have to make it look good. Want him to think he actually has a shot with me. Yeah right he looks like he just washed up from the disco era but a job is a job. So after leading him on I mention finding a place a little quieter. Can't just dust him right here...secret destinies and all. Probably won't go over well.
As soon as we get outside and around the corner he shows his game face and is surprised that I don't try to run away screaming. I don't wait for him, I throw the first punch and a fight breaks out. As we are trading blows I hear a commotion in the direction we just came from and look over to see her standing there with a look of shock on her face holding a stake. I hear one of her friends say something and then I borrow her stake and dust the 70's reject. After I thank her for the stake I saunter back inside the club.
Okay so I admit I was showing off and making a little bit of a scene. But come on this was Buffy Summers! I had to show her that I can be just as badass as her. Especially knowing what I have to tell her. I want to build myself up a little so I tell some of my wilder stories (like slaying naked) and some wilder not so true stories (alligator wrestlin...come on I'm from Boston, not very likely). I wanted to hear about her slays. She has been slaying longer then me I am sure she had some pretty wild stories but her friends kept interrupting and I kept giving them what they wanted. I was putting on the act and her friends were eating it up. Buffy on the other hand didn't seem to happy. I never got a chance to talk to her alone. I really wasn't comfortable talking to her in front of her friends about the reason I came. So I mentioned patrolling together. Showing me all the hot spots. She really didn't seem to be to into that idea, she kept brushing me off and giving me an attitude. She said I could come to the library tomorrow and talk to her watcher to get the whats what then.